“The Feast” Ah, the words every young bride surely dreams of saying on their wedding day: “Hey Mom, can we go see the sheep guts, too?” Mori-sensei is taking the term “slice-of-life” quite literally this time – . The long-awaited wedding day of Laila and Leyli has finally arrived, and […] Read more
The cliffhanger of episode 11 left me wondering – was Haiyore! going to stick to its insane guns for the season finale, or sell out and go the conventional route? The answer, I guess, is somewhere in between. There are definitely screwball comedies where warmth is a big part of […] Read more
I never thought all that much about Kimi to Boku during its run, but now that it’s ending I’ve become aware that I’m really going to miss it. Fittingly for a show that never worried too much about plot, KtB leaves the airwaves forever with an episode as thoughtful and […] Read more
At long last – for an episode at least – Gundam AGE has fulfilled its potential and become the series I always hoped it would be. This episode of AGE faced an obstacle for me that none of its predecessors had – high expectations. For the first time in 36 […] Read more
That definitely would not have been my guess about who that guy was… Before we blog episode 11, a brief word about an interesting poll from Sankaku Complex. I normally don’t put a lot of stock in the particular site but then ran a poll this week – “Top 20 […] Read more
Well, they still didn’t answer the question in this arc’s title… All things considered I’d call this episode a considerable step up from last week’s effort, which left me pretty disinterested in the end. I usually find with Hyouka that it’s hard to say just exactly why some episodes work […] Read more
For my entire life I’ve tried hard to be a 3D ant. I just didn’t realize it until now. On some level I always knew that Space Brothers was an extended argument for manned space flight on its merits, but it was never as obvious as it was this week. […] Read more
The question here was always whether Hunter X Hunter could possibly follow up the tour de force display of episode 35. The answer, unequivocally, is yes. A resounding yes. Here’s how good the fight scenes in this episode were: I forgot to take sceencaps for several minutes because I was […] Read more
Two words for that episode: “absolutely fantastic”. I feel as if I’ve said just about all there is to be said about MGX, which by its nature lends itself to some pretty high-level (if not high-quality) analysis. It continues to surprise and delight me just about every week, with very few exceptions. […] Read more
“Skeletons in the Closet/Endgame” In the finale of Book 1, Korra gave us in microcosm everything that was good and bad about the entire season. It was exhilarating, beautiful, powerful, exasperating and ultimately disappointing. If you take the glass half-full approach this was practically Romanee-Conti ‘37 – the finale was […] Read more